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Your Top 5 Irish Céilí Bands 2015

What an amazing response we had to this poll – the amount of interest far exceeded my wildest reckoning.

10,030 votes from 40 countries far and wide, with 128 bands on the list which expanded over the poll week to include 171 bands, suggested by you.

I’m not sure if this is the first poll of Irish céilí bands, but the purpose of holding a popular vote was to try increase the level of interest in Irish dance music. I can see that it doesn’t need a huge amount of help but I hope it has added something extra. I’d love to see the day where every country in the world has at least one céilí band.

Thanks to everyone for voting and sending comments and suggestions – you can keep adding your comments below.

The biggest thanks of all go the céilí bands and their musicians. Congratulations to you all for being making the effort to be part of a wonderful tradition. A special mention goes to the Kilfenora Céilí Band with 106 years experience and a new album launched 3 days ago – mighty!

Thank-you for the music – you all do Ireland proud, you do Irish music proud and most importantly, we the dancers and music fans absolutely LOVE YOU!

6 thoughts on “Your Top 5 Irish Céilí Bands 2015”

Hi great to see stats for the irish may attract more scientists a great poll question would be what is everyone in all those nations doing for st pats day? I am going to a Mass at Boston’s cathedral receiving a blessed shamrock and then giving a health fair after Mass with parish nurse then going to an irish session at harringtons in Wakefield Massach music starts at 11am happy and thanks to you for making all this irish dance interesting and blissful Nora

Hi Nora – Great to hear from you, as usual. That sounds like a great question – I’ll do that one next year. Also sounds like you’ve got a great day of activities on for St.Patrick’s Day – good on you. Very best wishes, Nora (eile)